Kevin Spacey

Explosive confidential arbitration pits the disgraced actor against his former employer, Media Rights Capital. In 2019, MRC brought the initial claim against Spacey, seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages suffered as a result of #MeToo revelations about the actor. But Spacey then lodged a counterclaim against MRC, arguing that reports of his sexual misdeeds had been exaggerated and that he's owed money MRC never paid him after his alleged sexual misdeeds surfaced in 2017. The Spacey case was submitted to an arbitrator in February 2020, right before the coronavirus lockdown began, with protective orders in place. The film, TV and theater star finds himself a Hollywood pariah. The actor who once nabbed Oscars for his iconic roles in The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, a Tony for Lost in Yonkers and 12 Emmy nominations, mostly for House of Cards, has become the most decorated actor who cannot work. Spacey lives in seclusion with his Svengali manager, former boy band member Evan Lowenstein. In London, the Metropolitan Police has concluded its investigation of at least six sexual assault claims made against him that took place from 1996 to 2013. Several of the claims stemmed from his decade-plus work reviving and running the Old Vic theater. the Crown Prosecution Service, the British version of a district attorney, which is deciding whether to bring forth criminal charges against Spacey. Spacey is also being sued by an anonymous accuser who claims that Spacey sexually assaulted him when he was 14. Three other Spacey accusers coincidentally died within the span of 10 months in 2019, the same year that criminal charges against Spacey were dropped in Nantucket, Massachusetts, after that accuser invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify about an alleged indecent assault and battery that occurred when he was a teenager. MRC and Netflix always have maintained that they were blindsided when allegations of Spacey's predatory behavior.